BSG.CS.00582 — Cloth Seal, Cloth Worker's Personal Seal, Privy Mark, BD, 1500~1825

Found near Baldock, Hertfordshire, 21mm, 8.2g.

Privy mark 4 with B D to sides joined to base / 5 pointed star // 6 or 9 and inverted 6 or 9 / Y all incuse

Tentative dating of late eighteenth century to early nineteenth is based on style - see No.220, Fig.31, Geoff Egan, 'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M. Occasional Paper 93)' - "Clothiers', weavers' & searchers' seals with privy marks etc."

See BSG.CS.01194 for a parallel seal with the same inverted 6 or 9!